Friday 29th of March 2024

the choice of being unwashed...

homelessness
Abbott remarks draw Salvos' fire

The Salvation Army says it is worried by comments by Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that homelessness can be a choice for some people.

Mr Abbott made the comments to a meeting of social service providers last week.

Major David Eldridge from the Salvation Army says he hopes Mr Abbott was not trying to politicise the issue.

Heracles and the windy deals with banks....

heracles and the wind

Am I on my lonesome to believe that for the last 60 years the US has been trying to stop the formation of Europe?...

A strong Europe would pose a "challenge" to the US.

why should they hate us .....

why should they hate us .....

Today, any who fight against or resist the invasion of the United States armed forces, whether in occupied territory or not, and even when they are defending their own homes and families, are called insurgents. But given the proper definition above, do these "insurgents" really exist?

chutzpah .....

chutzpah .....

Americans have been induced to believe that the Zionist state is an ally. We are not alone in viewing Israel as a legitimate nation and a noble experiment to provide a "homeland" for a victimized people. That alluring storyline victimized the broader Jewish community while also laying waste to the nation that was first deceived to extend to Zionists the hand of friendship.

dopus dei .....

dopus dei .....

from Crikey .....

Tony Abbott tells us why Peter Garrett should resign his portfolio:

a culture of suppression .....

a culture of suppression .....

MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country's most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a "culture of suppression" that undermined government assurances about its conduct.

onward christian soldiers .....

onward christian soldiers .....

Religious right leaders are making a concerted push to gain thousands of new signatures for their "Manhattan Declaration," a manifesto released late last year by about 150 conservative Christian leaders.

The document, signed by such religious-right heavy-hitters as Focus on the Family eminence James Dobson and Prison Fellowship Ministries leader Chuck Colson, compares pro-choice advocates to eugenicists (and implicitly to Nazis) and equates same-sex marriage with polygamy and a gateway to legalized incest. Its authors promise to defy any law that does not comport with their religious beliefs.

crops of AWB toons...

celebrating awb

Before, during and after the war in Iraq, the Australian Wheat Board was selling tonnes of wheat to Iraq. But before the war it was selling wheat while paying bribes to Saddam to get the gig, contrary to the letter of UN sanctions. Of course, the UN authorities alerted ASIO, which unlike the WMDs fictional double-cross set-up, got the right info on the AWB deception. But, according to our previous government, the boffins at ASIO decided to say NOFIN'...

through a looking glass darkly .....

through a looking glass darkly .....

As our Founding Fathers and a long list of scholars warned, once civil liberties are breached, they are breached for all. Soon U.S. citizens were being held indefinitely in violation of their habeas corpus rights. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, an American citizen of Pakistani origin, might have been the first.

the irony or ironing...

ironing

From the SMH

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has been branded "incredibly old-fashioned" for implying that housewives still do all the ironing.

Mr Abbott made the comment in a dry cleaners in the NSW town of Queanbeyan yesterday, as he warned of higher electricity prices under the government's emissions trading scheme.

the principle of serving self interest .....

the principle of serving self interest .....

from Crikey .....

A quarter-billion dollar rort and the media plays dead. Wonder why?

Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane writes:

tweedleright verus righttweedle

the right to be rightier


Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals [US democrats mostly] so condescending?

the great false hope .....

the great false hope .....

What's harder to understand is why these illegal actions, like virtually all the actions of the US military in Afghanistan, are largely ignored by the rest of the world. During Obama's recent State of the Union address, the war that will soon see some 75,000 Americans at the front got one scant paragraph. That was right after the president solemnly declared: "We've prohibited torture."

Try telling that to the Afghanis. 

good old uncle sam .....

good old uncle sam .....

The director of US national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad.

Assassinating Americans is just as illegal as assassinating non-Americans.

The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

http://www.alternet.org/story/145556/top_10_problems_with_america_killing_its_own_citizens

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